Human predicament: the secular ideologies
- New Delhi Ashish Publishing House 1987
- v.1, 618p.
This work addresses the problem, risen to relevance in the present age, that men find themselves divided into groups, each group united by sharing a particular ideology or reli- gion which at the same time divides them from another correlative group. This problem reaches its zenith in the current ideological conflict between Communism and Capitalism. The author suggests that the problem lies in the fact that these solutions' are 'singly- reflexed' in that they 'solve' the human predi- cament only once-over relative to themselves- Deified and presupposed, resulting in their warping the real nature of the objective- problem (the other-ideology) to fit themselves and their sub-conscious invisible purposes. This philosophical problem of essence thus runs parallel with the psychic problem of existence pertaining to human nature itself. It results in the respective adherents' tilting at windmills which they, unlike Don Quixote, construct deliberately in order to avoid attacking the real problem and solving it, (a) because that real problem includes themselves and (b) because that real solution includes their Other. Thus, on all sides they neither have “identicity” to themselves in that they are not what they 'think' and pretend they are but are rather their deliberately-hidden sub-conscious purposes, nor do they have “else-relatedness” to their object because they are themselves such that they must "destroy him to save him."